https://wist.info Wish I'd Said That! Wed, 10 Jun 2026 00:36:17 +0000 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://wist.info/wp/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/little-w-little-box-60x60.jpg https://wist.info 32 32 43606282 https://wist.info/stevenson-robert-louis/34637/ https://wist.info/stevenson-robert-louis/34637/#respond Tue, 02 Aug 2016 02:06:16 +0000 Dave http://wist.info/?p=34637 Many’s the long night I’ve dreamed of cheese — toasted, mostly.

Robert Louis Stevenson (1850–1894) Scottish essayist, novelist, poet
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Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970) French statesman and soldier
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Quoted in Ernest Mignon, Les Mots du Général (1962). ]]> https://wist.info/de-gaulle-charles/34606/feed/ 0 34606 https://wist.info/chesterton-gilbert-keith/34540/ https://wist.info/chesterton-gilbert-keith/34540/#respond Wed, 20 Jul 2016 04:16:16 +0000 Dave http://wist.info/?p=34540 Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.

Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874-1936) English journalist and writer
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